Read Along: Barren Bitches Book Tour–Tour #13

by Mel

Welcome to the thirteenth tour of the Barren Bitches Book Brigade–a book club from the comfort of your own living room. Grab a cup of coffee and start clicking away at the links below.

Just to explain, this book club is entirely online and open to anyone (male or female) in the infertility/pregnancy loss/assisted conception/adoption/parenting-after-infertility world (as well as any other related category I inadvertently left off the list). It is called a book tour because everyone reads the same book and then poses a question to the group. Participants choose a few questions to answer and then post their response on their blog. Readers can jump from blog to blog, commenting along the way.

Book: The Empty Picture FrameAuthor: Jenna Nadeau (a blogger!)Start Date: May 27Post Date: July 9(need an explanation of how a book tour works? Click here to go to a list of posts on the past book tours as well as information about all upcoming tours and book events.)

Barren Bitches Book Brigade List (click on any of the links below to take you to a stop on this book tour. Jump from post to post to read a plethora of opinions and thoughts on The Empty Picture Frame).

Even if haven’t read The Empty Picture Frame, you can still add your own thoughts on the blog tour or react to someone else’s critique.

Like the idea of being in a book club without leaving your living room? The next book for book tour #14 is a non-IF book that will help you see infertility in an entirely new way (I know, it sounds far-fetched, but I promise you that the lessons learned are applicable to any life crisis) Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. I’m halfway through right now and it is amazing/incredible. After a messy divorce, she leaves New York to travel to three different places, trying to find happiness through three different means. The landscape is gorgeous and you will go on your own personal journey to finding your own peace as you read. A big burden for a little book to fill, but I think it’s up for the challenge.

The Details: Tour #14 will start July 10th. Participants will read Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. On or before August 13th, everyone will send one question based on the book (to get a sense of questions, click here to see the questions sent for book tour #2) to me. I will compile the questions into lists that will be emailed out to you by August 15th. Everyone will choose 3 questions from the list and answer them on their own blog on August 18 or 19th (we will break up into two or three smaller groups and you can choose which day works best for you when the date gets closer). Each day of the tour, I’ll also post a master list and people can jump from blog to blog, reading and commenting on the book tour.

If you would like to sign up to participate in book tour #14, leave a comment below or send me an email. I need the title and a link to your blog as well as an email address where you’d like the two or three book club emails sent. If a spouse wants to participate too and he/she doesn’t have their own blog, have them set up a blog solely for book tours (as we did with the Annex) and send me a link to that blog. And if you’re a reader without a blog, now is a great time to set up a space for yourself on Blogger. People will be able to find brand-spanking-new blogs because they will be on the book tour’s participant list. The next few tours are always listed on the new upcoming and past tours list. Happy reading.

Who is Mel?

Melissa, otherwise known as Mel, The Stirrup Queen, and most recently nicknamed Lollipop Goldstein, has been blogging since 2006. In addition to STIRRUP QUEENS, she also writes the daily Lost and Found (LFCA). She also writes for BlogHer. You can join her on StumbleUpon. She's known to Twitter about her wonky ovaries.